Alecs Ștefănescu quoted Cold Intimacies by Eva Illouz
It is commonly assumed that capitalism has created an a-emotional world dominated by bureaucratic rationality; …
The notion of “communication” – and of what I would like to almost call “communicative competence” – is an outstanding example of what Foucault called an episteme, a new object of knowledge which in turn generates new instruments and practices of knowledge.
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“Communication” is thus a technology of self-management relying extensively on language and on the proper management of emotions but with the aim of engineering inter- and intra-emotional coordination.